Stories with a Love Dodecahedron at some point will throw in a Love Chart. It is usually simplified as much as feasible, with little portraits connected by color-coded arrows. Occasionally, some pithy or more detailed quote is put on the arrows to clarify. Sometimes such a chart is drawn up within the story by one of the characters.

Examples:

Love Hina and Mahou Sensei Negima! (both written by Ken Akamatsu) have at one time or another had a character draw up a chart which tallied up in numeric form the relative levels of attraction/love that a group of girls has for the series' male lead.

Chamo tries to pull out his chart◊ (see old discussion or this version◊) at two different points, only to be thwarted each time. The chart has separate categories for friendship, romance, lust, and so forth. The results aren't all that surprising for most, but Eva? Low affection + high lust = she just wants to rape the poor kid. Wait, that isn't surprising either.◊

Interestingly, he made a side comment much earlier that his magic power to make these charts can't "read" Eva (and unnamed others) at all. Whether the author forgot or this is more evidence suggesting just where Chamomile pulls these charts out of is unclear.

There's also this◊, which shows the various relationships between the characters, as of chapter 255, though only the pink arrows indicate romantic relationshipsnote The best that my non-Japanese-speaking self can do is- pink=romantic, red=pactio, yellow=rival who're often friends, blue=familial, solid green=teacher/student, dotted green=admiration, purple=friendship, brown=antagonistic, grey=adoption. Blue Outlines are Negi's Class, Red outlines are the Baka Rangers. Yellow Boxes for those "in the know", Grey boxes for those in the ground. Note that all pink lines are monodirectional.

And here◊ is one in English with definite explanations of what means what. Current as of chapter 335, should be updated as appropriate.

Nina is clearly very fond of Tenma, as shown by the last moments of the show. However, this may simply be non-romantic admiration and respect especially since, though looking quite young, Tenma is almost twice her age.

Let us not forget Tenma's own proclamation of "what would I do without you" to Nina. Admittedly, he was desperately trying to stop her from killing herself, but it's still a rather strange thing to say considering their thus-far platonic relationship.

That is a fan made one. Takahashi included one in the memorial book (Art of Ranma ˝ in USA). That book also includes a chart about how the main character, Ranma, thinks about each of his rivals/enemies.

Although it didn't appear in the comic book itself, DC once published one of these for the reboot version of the Legion of Super-Heroes in poster form.

Fan Fiction

A version of this was used in The Mad Scientist Wars, in a non-romantic version. The Tinker Family, after discovering that The Tinker Twins had adopted Desius and that Vladimir was the long-lost father of Chic Geek, Wallace Cane set out to create such a chart- It took up most of a table.

One worksafe fic on the Ace AttorneyKink Meme had Apollo and Klavier invited to Phoenix's "family only" Thanksgiving get-together. Their minds boggled as what they had expected to be a very small group turned out to include "fifteen people—almost none of which had the decency to be genetically related to one another." Ema had to draw up a chart just so they could make sense of it. (One reader's rendition of it can be found here◊.)

Film

Two of these are shown onscreen and described by the narrator partway through Brand Upon the Brain, giving to the fact that viewers are notgeniuses. Each only contains three people, though, and each contains the same three people—the confusion comes from factoring in one character's Sweet Polly Oliver act.

As a subversion of sorts (as in this case it rarely deals with actual romance), in Kamen Rider Double, the second episode of every two-ep arc begins with a chart showing the involvement and roles of every person connected to the current case being investigated, with a Previously On narrating over top.

The Star Fox 64 player's guide included one of these for all the major characters.

Used in Fire Emblem 10, albeit more to depict character's military allegiences/family treesecret identities, with only a few critical romantic/familial bonds depicted; several characters had Multiple Endings, after all.

Several of these have been put out for Final Fantasy VII - most in the Anniversary Book which had one for every spin-off, but the most comprehensive one was in the original Ultimania guide which even included several minor characters such as Myrna, Elmyra, and Dio.

Played straight by Josh Lesnick, author of Girly (Although it is currently outdated by two years, and found only on his deviantART page here).

Parodied by xkcdhere: a particular nerd tries to use graph theory to find the "optimal" seating arrangement. And then again, where a couple decides to have sex solely because it'll make their social group's graph symmetrical.

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